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ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Just coming in this here thread to say this game loving slaps.

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ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


BitBasher posted:

Then shoot the leg, it's right there! Is there some reason you just really don't want to shoot the leg?

Because despite literally 30 years of shooting games on the computer I can't shoot for poo poo and the venom ballsack is large.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Huckabee Sting posted:

I've just now realized that the Major Defense order wasn't personally for me, but is a meta-event for everyone. I've been doing nothing but defense orders because I thought I wasn't doing it right or something. I've done some offense runs to help break up the monotony so I'm not completely behind.


Pennsylvanian posted:

I only learned the same thing from you just now.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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SplitSoul posted:

That's not all it's good for.



Thank you for doing your part.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Infinitum posted:

Picked this up and am pretty hype. Trying to convince some IRL friends to join me, as this'll be right up their alley

If my mates join later what happens wrt me having more hours than them, and them being 'underpowered' on progression?

Most weapons are sidegrades, the main thing is that they won't have the tools at the start to deal with heavy armour and at the very start they won't have any stratagems. Otherwise it's fine.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


wait, I've never even done a flag raising mission

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Okay, I have come back to level 2 to do a flag raising mission and I am now certified for Helldiving

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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CelticPredator posted:

30 seconds to evac, everyone is dying. Me and a fellow helldiver left


Game just crashes lol

the game broke before the helldivers did

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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I've got like 18 hours logged since release, mostly playing with pubs and honestly haven't had a single bad experience. Did play with a few people who didn't know what they were doing, but that isn't really bad in a coop game.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Considering how much stuff in the game simply doesn't work it is genuinely impressive how fun it is.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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magiccarpet posted:

Dinosaurs please

this, I want to shoot space dinosaurs

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


I already liked the Flamethrower and I felt it was a decent response to spontaneous bug breaches, so looking forward to testing it out.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Nordick posted:

So, anyone found out what happens when you go out of map bounds?

All I'll say is, throwing your buddy's reinforcement beacon outside the map is a top tier prank.

(It was me, I got pranked (by accident))

A timer pops up telling you to return to the operations zone. The cruiser starts bombing you if you don't.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Nordick posted:

Yes, I know, that's not what I was asking.

I am glad others have had the joy of finding out, too.

yeah, sorry man, i misread it

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


I once had a mission with a guy trying the Arc for the first time, I died like five times from friendly fire. Extremely patriotic gun.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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3) Desire for this gang tag was way higher than I expected. If your only post in this thread is asking for the gang tag I am probably not going to queue one for free, apologies. I queue these up but admins still have to sign off on em and we're apparently discouraged from handing them out like candy :v:

i am dying for super earth's oil profits

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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I think the AMR and Railgun having similar roles is fine because they have extremely different gunfeels, so people can pick what they enjoy more.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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I have been running the laser dog and flamer with the starting rifle against bugs and honestly it is great at thinning the herds and fighting everything but Bile Titans.

I usually bring two eagles with it, but I think I'll replace one with EAT.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Owlbear Camus posted:

I think there should be a "randomize loadout" button

Honestly, I'd legit use that.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Bots definitely require a different approach to fight than bugs, yeah, but even accounting for that I'd say they're generally harder. I drop difficulty one level when deploying on the western front against the socialists.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


My initial reaction to everyone having the same mission was aversion, but honestly it is pretty funny to have everyone using the same bullshit to clear their dailies and I will always stand with funny.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Mesadoram posted:

My impression of mines are that they are a really great tool to piss off your teammates and do almost nothing to the enemies.

I remember being on call with a friend after dropping a minefield and telling him to remind me that I dropped mines in that spot. Cue me five minutes later dying to one of the mines and bursting into laughter. Totally worth it.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Tommy the Newt posted:

I'm braced for this being an unpopular opinion but the live service aspect of the game is starting to get me down. I appreciate that they're trying to do something new and I genuinely wish them well with it, with a few tweaks I'd probably be into it, but I find currently the cost to individual player choice too high.

For example, if you want to play on Heeth or Fenrir (which are my two favourite planets so far), you just can't because they're no longer on the list. Also if you want to revisit termicide missions you can't, even though they were IMO a better version of the defence missions.

On top of that, if you want to commit to their narrative and contribute to the galactic war you're required to complete full campaigns, which means a potentially 120-minute set of missions in the same location against the same enemy type with the same modifiers. All progress is lost if you want to go elsewhere for a change in the middle of it. Combined with the sense that there's a lot of godhanding going on, this leaves me feeling disengaged from the war effort overall and just frustrated that I can't pick and choose from a more generous menu.

I can see the upsides and potential for sure, it's been good for memes and social media and it does seem to be inspiring for a lot of people but I kinda miss Deep Rock's 20-minute mission and modifier rotation, it lets you access more varied content more often, as well as giving you more control over the length of your session.

Maybe once they add a 3rd faction things will feel a bit more open, it's early days, but I'd really like individual missions to count for war effort and for there to be some way to revisit favourite locations when you want, even if it's in some kind of separate simulator mode or something.

I get where you're coming from, but I am still reporting you for sedition.

I think mission effect is a bit a consequence of the game suffering for its own success. HD1 had an all-time high of 6,744 concurrent players and while I am sure the devs hoped to do better than that, they certainly didn't antecipate doing almost a hundred times that, so we have to have fractions of fractions of percentages per op. It still matters, same as in voting, which I guess makes this the most democratic game there is.

It could be interesting to have a custom mode that let you pick a mission type, world type, enemy type and modifiers and just let you go at it, not gonna lie.

I also agree that it is rare, specially during weeks, to have the time to commit to a full op. I guess it's not really a surprise that a lot of people just do one mission and then skip out, I am certainly guilty of that sometimes.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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novaSphere posted:

Just had my Shipmaster NPC talk about how a 'fraction' of Terminids are showing resistance to the poison and that this was 'to be expected, of course' :ohdear:

My bet is that we are also going to fix the bots in the next series of major orders and then the hinges will fall out as the Illuminate comes in and we've somehow made the other two factions even stronger.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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I feel I am the only Slugger hater in the world, there's just something about the gun that feels off to me. I definitely don't like it against bugs, still figuring out my bot loadout (currently Eagle Air Strike, Eagle 500 kg, Autocannon and Explosive Mortar), trying to experiment with smoke grenades too.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Black Noise posted:

That evacuate the citizens mission can gently caress up real real fast.

Boy, yeah, we had an op last night going well, third was an evacuation and holy poo poo, that was a sea of bots. Three minutes in we couldn't extract anyone else from the excess socialism, the entire place was just craters by the point we ran out of time and reinforcements. It was awesome, but didn't contribute to the defense of Daupnir.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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that's some master move in marketing

speaking of, this thread moves too quickly for me to thank the poster proper, but thanks to whoever posted a quick guide on how to farm super credits. Found myself a good map and watched Starship Troopers for the first time since I was like ten while super crediting on auto. I am now ready for democracy.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Legit Businessman posted:


Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this farm strat as a gift on "half-way to liberty day".

That sounds like a legit business, man! Thank you for doing your part!

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Mesadoram posted:

I am REALLY loving the defender smg. This thing is awesome :unsmith:.

Yeah, I keep trying out loadouts and coming back to it. It is such a snappy gun, fantastic gunfeel.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Tom Tucker posted:

People telling me to bring Stun Grenades to bugs when impact grenades one-shot bile spewers?!?

Stun grenades on bugs are pretty much so you can get easy shots on Chargers and Bile Titans

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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The biggest problem with the shield is that you let go of it if you get ragdolled. I really want to like it, but it's very easy to lose it.

Maybe it will be better when the Illuminate or their sucessor faction shows up, as they might have less explosive ordnance compared to bots.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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What is this treasonous talk? Creek and Tibit will be liberated today, and the Automatons will be relegated to two periphery worlds that will swiftly fall. We'll back on Super Earth for the victory march this Tuesday evening.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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explosivo posted:

Is there other armor that has the death survival bonus other than the preorder set? I really like that bonus but hate wearing the dumb preorder armor and I've never seen any others in the store that had that same bonus on it.

There are two armours with that in the free Warbond.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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smellmycheese posted:

I did an easy level mission the other day just to test out some weapons and it was the raise the flag one. It’s a superb hilarious mission and absolutely should have a high end Helldive level version

Yeah, they 100% should add Raise the Flag objectives to level 9 difficulty.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Creek is democratic, time to free Tibit!

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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The_White_Crane posted:

I didn't get any medals for the completion of the major order :(

Sometimes it takes a few hours for medals to arrive to the next of kin of our heroes, steel your heart, command has not forgotten our sacrifices!

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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So, do the Gunships have any weakpoints that can be damaged by medium penetration small arms like the AMR or HMG? I shot one at the engine but was unsure if that was what did the deed, otherwise kind of feels like anti-tank is going to be needed. Guess that's why command is giving free EATs at the Creek.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Bots are super dumb, as long as you come out of the other side of whatever obstruction you hid behind of you can get the drop on them.

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Another good use for mortars is that they will continue firing once you're gone from that area and will attract patrols to their location, reducing aggro on the squad.

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ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Honestly, I think a better nerf on the Slugger would be on its accuracy, so it's still good at short/mid range but isn't better than the frigging DMR's at their jobs.

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